Years active 1949–1996 Residence Mumbai | Died 17 May 2000, Mumbai | |
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Born 15 January 1921 ( 1921-01-15 ) British India Occupation Film actor, Stage actor, Lyricist Movies Paying Guest, Dushman, Bees Saal Baad, Kabuliwala, Farz Similar Subodh Mukherjee, Asit Sen, Raj Khosla, Vijay Anand, O P Ralhan | ||
Sajjan (15 January 1921 – 17 May 2000) was a Bollywood and Stage actor. He acted in several plays and movies between 1950's to 1980's. His best known films are "Bees Saal Baad", "Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi", "April Fool", "Rail Ka Dibba" and "Jhumroo".
Early life and career
Born on January 15, 1921 in Jaipur, his full name was Sajjan Lal Purohit. But he was famous with his first name in I he movie world. Sajjan did his graduation from Jaswarit college, Jodhpur. He had a desire to be a lawyer but not an actor. In 1941, he arrived in Calcutta and worked as an apprentice in a laboratory of, East India Company. His initial breakthrough in films was as an extra ill films like Masoom t194i), Chouranghee (1942). Sajjan left Calcutta during World War II and reached Mumbai. In Mumbai he worked as an assistant to famous director Kidar Sharrrla. At that time great showirian Raj Kapoor was also worked as an assistant to Kidar Shilrma. He also worked as assistant to Gajanan Jagirdar. He also worked as assistant Gajanan Jagirdar and Vakil Sahib and got Rs. 35 as salary. A poet by heart, Sajjan showed His talent when he wrote dialogues for Meena (1944) and lyrics for Door Chalen (1946) and Dhanyavad (1948). Sajjan also acted in small roles in Prithvi Theatte. His acting debut film was Dhanyavad. After that Bombay Theatre's Muqaddar was released in 1950. The heroine was Nalini Jaywant. Now Sajjan was well established in film world. In 1950s- 60s Sajjan acted as hero or side-hero in films like, Sainya, Rail Ka Dibba, Bahana, Sheesha, Malkin, Nirmohi, Kasturi, Mehmaan, Lagan, Girl School, paridhaan, 00 Dulhe, Ghar-Ghar Mein Diioali, Haa-Haa-Hee-Hee-Hoo-Hoo, Poonam Jhanjhar, Halla- Gulla. As hero his last film was Kabuliwala and as an artist he last appeared in 1986 release Shatru with Rajesh Khanna. Artist of more than 150 films Sajjan also worked in TV serials. In Vikram-Betaal he played Betaal. His other serial was Lena-Dena.